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It’s not easy being a single mother, coping with a learning disorder and going to university, but somehow Tene Dowling is managing. In September, the 31-year-old goes into her last year of an undergraduate psychology programme at York St John Univer...

Like most couples, Charles and Gloria Medeiros have had their ups and downs, but through it all they’ve stayed together, for sixty years. People are always asking them what their secret is, but they think the answer is fairly simple: love. “I always...

In Jonah Jones’s latest show, Subjective Reality, channel markers and sign posts pop up a lot. Sometimes you can find tiny ones sitting in the corner of one of his seascapes, at other times, they are larger and more obvious. The 52-year-old thinks i...

Whenever artist Shakira DeRoza sees something with a butterfly on it, she has to buy it. Butterflies are a reminder of her late sister, Shakeya DeRoza, who was murdered in 2009. “She just loved butterflies,” the 30-year-old said. So earlier this mo...

Daniel Moik has smoked jerky, roasted a 15lb lamb and steamed Chinese dumplings. But don’t get him talking about bread. He describes ciabatta as one of his “disasters”. According to the 29-year-old, his first attempt came out of the oven as flat as...

The Chinese have a phrase bu dong zhuang dong, meaning to pretend to understand when you don’t. Nineteen-year-old Bermudian Kenza Wilks admits he did a lot of that when he first moved to Beijing in September. Once, he accidentally asked a cab driver...

Back in the 1920s, Philip “Dibbie” and Constance Adderley’s world was pretty small. The quiet couple had four children, Herman, Sydney, Phyllis and Maurice, and ran the Pembroke Meat Market on Serpentine Road. Almost 100 years later, the couple are ...

Cleveland Simmons is someone who has always liked to steer his own ship. It’s because of that he was able to start rehabilitation programmes for prisoners and advocate (loudly) for the downtrodden. It also led him into trouble with the law — on more ...

Abby Jones moved to England with her three children five months ago, looking for a better life. Things didn’t go as planned. The jobs she thought were there didn’t materialise and the relative they moved in with threw them out. Three months later, th...

Robin Holder took up yoga looking to make his body a little more flexible. When tragedy struck, he realised the exercise had another benefit — inner peace. “In October 2014, my father, Reg Holder, was diagnosed with lung cancer,” the 49-year-old said...